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sum of £315. The specimen (slightly cracked) was placed on 

 record in the memoirs of the Societe Zoologique de France in 

 1888 (plate figure), and additional notes on its history appeared 

 in the ' Bulletin ' of the Societe in 1891." 



Very little information can be added to the above. Comte 

 Raoul de Berace, as he stated in a letter to Mr. George 

 Dawson Rowley (dated 13th January, 1867), obtained this 

 egg from a shipowner of St. Malo, more than thirty years 

 before. It remained in the Count's collection until his death, 

 and was acquired by Baron Louis d'Hamonville in March, 

 1887. 



Rare Birds in Sussex and Kent. — Among the "Annual 

 Notes" for 1907, collected by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, in 

 " The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist " (Vol. I., pp. 124, 

 125) we note the following interesting records by Messrs. 

 N. F. Ticehurst, W. R. Butterfield, and W. Field :— 



Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excuhitor) at Rett Level, in June, 

 1907 ; Dartford Warbler [Sylvia undaia) at Pett, in December, 

 1906 ; Baillon's C'rake {Porzana bailloni) near Lydd, 

 November 24th, 1906, and another at Pett, in June, 1907 ; 

 Great Snipe (Gallinago major) at Brookland, on October 3rd, 

 1906 ; Spotted Redshank {Totanus fuscus) at Littlestone (no 

 date) ; and Mr. T. Parkin records a Little Gull [Larus 

 minulus) at Hastings, on February 23rd, 1907. 



British Willow-Tit in Yorkshire.— Among some Marsh- 

 Tits submitted to Dr. Hartert for examination was a specimen 

 of Parus atricapillus kleinschmidti taken at Bolton Abbey 

 on January 3rd, 1908 (H. B. Booth, Nat., 1908, p. 107). 



Golden Orioles Breeding in Immature Plumage. — At 

 the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held in 

 February last, the Hon. E. S. Montagu exhibited two pairs of 

 Golden Orioles {Oriolus galbula) from Hungary. They were 

 breeding and had nests at the time, but the males were in 

 immature plumage, much like that of the female. This was 

 thought to be a newly ascertained fact, but it is not necessary 

 to search further afield than "Yarrell" to find that it has 

 been observed before, and that the male is supposed to take 

 three years in attaining its full brilliant plumage {cf. Yarrell, 

 Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. IV., Vol. I., p. 240). 



The Breeding of the Kite [Milvus ictinus) and the 

 Buzzard [Buteo vulgaris) in Essex Fifty Years Ago. — A 

 paper which we regret to have overlooked, by Mr. Miller 



